Ti-Hua Chang

Freelance Reporter

Ti-Hua Chang is an award-winning broadcast journalist, based in New York.

He was most recently a freelance correspondent for the Weekend CBS Evening News. He was a general assignment and investigative reporter for WNYW, the FOX affiliate in New York. Before joining WCBS in 2005, Chang worked as a general assignment/investigative TV reporter at WNBC-TV. Prior to that, he was the host of his own talk show, New York Hotline on WNYC-TV.

In 1996, Chang won the George Foster Peabody Award for his news documentary “Passport to Kill”. The series of reports tracked suspected killers of children and cops who fled to the Dominican Republic, where they were protected by outdated extradition laws. The laws were changed. In 2006. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for a story on police using high-tech equipment to spy on an amorous couple. He is most proud of helping jail Byron De la Beckwith, the assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers 29 years after the heinous murder.

Chang is also the recipient of five Emmys. In 2004 he was given an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from CUNY NY Technical College. In 2010, an absurdist hip hop group named Fortress of Yahweh penned an homage to Chang called “Newscasters with Ghettoblasters” on YouTube.